Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 2015, 4, 21-42 21
E-ISSN: 1929-7092/15 © 2015 Lifescience Global
The Golden Age of the Company: (Three Colors of Company's
Time)
Peter N. Brusov
1,*
, Tatiana Filatova
2
, Natali Orehova
3
and Veniamin Kulik
4
1
Department of Applied Mathematics;
2
Faculty "Public Administration and Municipal Management", Financial
University under the Government of Russian Federation, Russia
3
Laboratory of Corporate Finance, Investments and Taxation, Consortium of Universities of South of Russia,
Russia
4
Department of Management, Financial University under the Government of Russian Federation, Russia
Abstract: In this paper we investigate the dependence of attracting capital cost on the time of life of company n at
various leverage levels, at various values of capital costs with the aim of define of minimum cost of attracting capital. All
calculations have been done within modern theory of capital cost and capital structure by Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova
(Brusov et al. 2011a,b,c,d,e; 2012 a,b; 2013 a,b,c; 2014 a,b; Filatova et al. 2008).
It is shown for the first time that valuation of WACC in the Modigliani – Miller theory (Modigliani et al. 1958; 1963; 1966)
is not minimal and valuation of the company capitalization is not maximal, as all financiers supposed up to now: at some
age of the company its WACC value turns out to be lower, than in Modigliani – Miller theory and company capitalization
V turns out to be greater, than V in Modigliani – Miller theory.
It is shown that, from the point of view of cost of attracting capital there are two types of dependences of weighted
average cost of capital, WACC, on the time of life of company n: monotonic descending with n and descending with
passage through minimum, followed by a limited growth. The first type takes place for the companies with low capital
costs of the company, characteristic for the western companies. The second type takes place for higher capital costs of
the company, characteristic for the Russian companies as well as for companies from other developing countries. This
means that latter companies, in contrast to the western ones, can take advantage of the benefits, given at a certain
stage of development of company by discovered effect. Moreover, since the "golden age" of company depends on the
company's capital costs, by controlling them (for example, by modifying the value of dividend payments, that reflect the
equity cost), company may extend the "golden age" of the company, when the cost to attract capital becomes a minimal
(less than perpetuity limit), and capitalization of companies becomes maximal (above than perpetuity assessment) up to
a specified time interval.
Concluded that existed up to the present conclusions of the results of the theory of Modigliani-Miller (Modigliani et al.
1958; 1963; 1966) in these aspects are incorrect. We discuss the use of opened effects in developing economics
(Brusov et al. 2015).
Keywords: Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova theory, Modigliani – Miller theory, minimal capital cost of company.
INTRODUCTION
It is well-known, that the company goes through
several stages in its development process:
adolescence, maturity and old age. Within the modern
theory of capital cost and capital structure by Brusv-
Filtv-Orekhv (BFO theory) (Brusov et al.
2011a,b,c,d,e; 2012 a,b; 2013 a,b,c; 2014 a,b; Filatova
et al. 2008) it is shown that the problem of the company
development has an interpretation, which is absolutely
different from generally accepted one.
One of the most important problem in corporate
finance is the problem of capital cost and capital
structure. Before 2008 there were just two kind of
valuations of cost of capital: one of them was the first
quantitative theory by Nobel Prize winners Modigliani
and Miller (Modigliani et al. 1958; 1963; 1966),
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applicable to perpetuity (with infinite life-
time)companies, and the second one was the valuation
applicable to one-year companies by Steve Myers
(Myers 1984).
So, before 2008, when the modern theory of capital
cost and capital structure by Brusv-Filtv-Orekhv
(BFO theory) has been created (Brusov et al.
2011a,b,c,d,e; 2012 a,b; 2013 a,b,c; 2014 a,b; Filatova
et al. 2008), only two points in time interval has been
known: one-year and infinity. That time Steve Myers
(Myers 1984) has supposed that the Modigliani – Miller
(MM) theorem (Modigliani et al. 1958; 1963; 1966)
gives the lowest assessment for weighted average cost
of capital, WACC, and consequently, the highest
assessment for company capitalization. This mean that
the weighted average cost of capital, WACC,
monotonically descends with time of life of company, n,
approaching to its perpetuity limit (Figure 1), and,
consequently, company capitalization monotonically
increases approaching to its perpetuity limit (Figure 3).